Is this about immigration?
What's really behind the sudden and righteous-sounding call from the senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, to change the 14th Amendment to the Constitution?
Poem of the week: Diamonds of clarity on the human condition
In "At the Public Market Museum: Charleston, South Carolina," Jane Kenyon's singular American poetic imagination offers clarity and revelation on the human condition.
Loss of a jazz warrior: Abbey Lincoln
Vocalist, actress and activist Abbey Lincoln, who died Aug. 14 at age 80, captured the energy and drive of an era in recording and film as few others could.
What catastrophe are we waiting for?
Global climate change is putting humanity's most basic, most elemental needs increasingly at risk.
Immigration: How not to make legislative concessions
The Senate yesterday to throw $600 more into the useless and hopeless project of "sealing" the U.S.-Mexican border. What a waste!
Americans are dying to eat
Despite evidence that they may cause cancer, food manufacturers continue to pour about 15 million pounds of eight synthetic dyes into the American food supply every year.
Hitch-22: When the left moves right
In lining up with Bush on the war in Iraq, the former Nation columnist shocked the left, and his militant atheism has inspired animosity on the right. Still, in his memoir Hitchens comes off as a man of principle.
How establishment media fans anti-immigrant flames
The anti-immigrant stridency of people like Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck sometimes leads us to ignore the somewhat more subtle bigotry from more "respectable" media, like the Washington Post.
Is socialism possible?
Given the unprecedented economic, political and military power of the U.S. ruling class, it may seem like a pipedream to believe that working people can ever take over.
Road trip in the heartland
My trip through the Great Plains was pretty tame compared to the travels of Jack Kerouac and Ken Kesey, but this gray-haired son did make a few observations along the way.
